HVM VS Visual Studio Code

Compare HVM vs Visual Studio Code and see what are their differences.

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HVM Visual Studio Code
107 2,838
7,101 158,095
2.5% 1.0%
6.7 10.0
about 2 months ago 2 days ago
Rust TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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HVM

Posts with mentions or reviews of HVM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-12.
  • SaberVM
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    Reminds me of HVM[0]

    [0]https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM

    Really interesting to see how new lang concepts and refinements keep popping up this last decade, between Vale, Gleam, Hylo, Austral...

    Linear types really opened up lots of ways to improve memory management and compilation improvements.

  • GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age: The bare minimum every developer must know
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
  • A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
    I have a tangential question that is related to this cool new feature.

    Warning: the question I ask comes from a part of my brain that is currently melted due to heavy thinking.

    Context: I write a fair amount of Clojure, and in Lisps the code itself is a tree. Just like this F# parallel graph type-checker. In Lisps, one would use Macros to perform compile-time computation to accomplish something like this, I think.

    More context: Idris2 allows for first class type-driven development, where the types are passed around and used to formally specify program behavior, even down to the value of a particular definition.

    Given that this F# feature enables parallel analysis, wouldn't it make sense to do all of our development in a Lisp-like Trie structure where the types are simply part of the program itself, like in Idris2?

    Also related, is this similar to how HVM works with their "Interaction nets"?

    https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM

    https://www.idris-lang.org/

    https://clojure.org/

    I'm afraid I don't even understand what the difference between code, data, and types are anymore... it used to make sense, but these new languages have dissolved those boundaries in my mind, and I am not sure how to build it back up again.

  • A History of Functional Hardware
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023
    Impressive presentation but I find two things missing in particular:

    * GRIN [1] - arguably a breakthrough in FP compilation; there are several implementation based on this

    * HVM [2] - parallel optimal reduction. The results are very impressive.

    [1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63237-9_19

    [2] https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM

  • Is the abstraction of lazy-functional-purity doomed to leak?
    1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 11 Jun 2023
    Purity has nothing to do with memoization. Haskell's semantics never "rewrite under a lambda" (unlike, e.g. HVM). Calling (\_ -> e) () twice will (modulo optimizations) always perform the computation in e twice.
  • Can one use lambda calculus as an IR?
    3 projects | /r/Compilers | 6 Jun 2023
    The most recent exploration of this, that I'm aware of is HVM (another intermediate language / runtime), although this one is not actually based on the lambda calculus, but on the interaction calculus.
  • The Rust I Wanted Had No Future
    4 projects | /r/rust | 5 Jun 2023
    Then, actually unrelated but worth mentioning: HVM. Finally, something new on the functional front that isn't dependent types!
  • The Halting Problem Is Decidable on a Set of Asymptotic Probability One (2006)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2023
  • Bachelor Thesis Topic
    1 project | /r/rust | 24 May 2023
    If you are into functional PL, how about https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM? You could experiment if you could schedule that on a GPU?
  • For those of you self taught,how did you cope with distractions while using a computer ?
    2 projects | /r/ADHD_Programmers | 8 May 2023
    In the interest of seeking ways of optimizing my code, I stumbled upon http://www.rntz.net/datafun/ as a means to do incremental computations of fixpoints while avoiding redundant work. And also the idea of automatic parallelism achieved by using Interaction Nets as a model of computation https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM.

Visual Studio Code

Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Code. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HVM and Visual Studio Code you can also consider the following projects:

Kind - A next-gen functional language [Moved to: https://github.com/Kindelia/Kind2]

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

rust-gpu - 🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

reactide - Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development.

SICL - A fresh implementation of Common Lisp

Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

fslang-suggestions - The place to make suggestions, discuss and vote on F# language and core library features

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

Sharp-Bilinear-Shaders - sharp bilinear shaders for RetroPie, Recalbox and Libretro for sharp pixels without pixel wobble and minimal blurring

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

atom - A DSL for embedded hard realtime applications.

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing